paulca Posted April 14, 2016 Posted April 14, 2016 Not strictly A10 related, feel free to move, but... If you enjoyed the A10C IFR challenge mission or you find IFR flight interesting, you have to check this out. From what I can tell he has no auto pilot, he is completely blind for most of the flight and is flying through some seriously busy airspace. [ame] [/ame]
Puma Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 Great video. Thanks Custom Pit 476 Recruiting i9-12900KF, 32 GB DDR5, Gigabyte Aorus Z690 Master, Gigabyte RTX 2080 Ti, 1TB Sabrent Roket 4+ 2x750GB RAID-0, TrackIR 5 /w clip, CRG9 49” Curved Ultrawide Flight Display+15" Touchscreen+17" Gauges display, Thrustmaster Warthog+7.5cm, Saitek Pro Combat Pedals, Streamdeck, Butt Kicker and pneumatic G-Seat
hansangb Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 LOL. I didn't realize until about 3 min in that he was on the ground. I was thinking to myself "who the hell is flying the plane???" hsb HW Spec in Spoiler --- i7-10700K Direct-To-Die/OC'ed to 5.1GHz, MSI Z490 MB, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3, NVMe+SSD, Win 10 x64 Pro, MFG, Warthog, TM MFDs, Komodo Huey set, Rverbe G1
paulca Posted April 15, 2016 Author Posted April 15, 2016 When I first watched it I couldn't work out why the controllers were American using American style radio telephony. Then I remembered most of New England has English place names like Manchester and Caldwell.
paulca Posted April 16, 2016 Author Posted April 16, 2016 I'd like to know which App he is using... :) Possibly one of Jeppesen's apps like the airlines use. http://ww1.jeppesen.com/aviation/mobile-efb/
paulca Posted April 16, 2016 Author Posted April 16, 2016 IFR flying is the best kind of flying. As a simulator pilot of some 20 years I would agree... to a point. Personally it was only recently that the "world outside" the cockpit was anything more than randomly generated dynamic scenery, with very few recognisable features. Thus navigating VFR is next to impossible except by major coast lines, some rivers or mountain ridges. This tended me (and I'm sure others) towards IFR flying as it's much, much easier to simulate radio and RNav. Similarly in civil aviation space I tend to enjoy flying difficult low visibility and overcast approaches as it adds some form of tension and challenge to the flight. In combat sims things are somewhat different and the military tend not to fly IFR all too often due to the nature of combat and being able to see what you are fighting. However, things are changing and have been for a while. FSX with OrbX scenery and a whole stack (circa £300) add-ons you have been able to VFR navigate via roads, railways, towns and many real world visual reference points. DCS does a good job too for VFR navigation, but do appreciate that is a lot easier to achieve for a few 1000 square miles than for the entire planet or at least a whole continent like FSX or P3D.
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